This morning I began my prayer time whining like an Israelite!<\/p>\n
I told God I had to be honest.\u00a0 I said, “God, It is impossible for me to pray circles around all the people and things You have placed on my heart when financial needs in my business are tyrannizing my thoughts, energy, and sleep.\u00a0 Sometimes it seems like\u00a0for me to\u00a0have faith the size of a mustard seed,\u00a0it would have to double in size”\u00a0 But I asked Him to help me have faith to know He is aware and His answer was on the way the first time I prayed\u00a0then I began to talk about His faithfulness (even when I’m not) and before I realized it, He was pouring out revelation on me.<\/p>\n
I know you know the story about the man whose wife brought him in a magnificent meal she had worked on most of the day, sat down a Valentine’s card next to it, kissed him, said I love you, and laid a new watch down beside the card.\u00a0 He said thank you! She said, honey do you still love me?… you never tell me you do.\u00a0 He replied, when I asked you to marry me, did I tell you how much I loved you?\u00a0 She said, Oh yes! He said, well I told you I loved you once, if it ever changes I’ll let you know…<\/p>\n
My logic gets the better of me when I don’t see “how” God can come through… or, more accurately, come through in time<\/em>.\u00a0 But I don’t\u00a0believe the Isralites or even Moses thought, “Oh, ‘No Worries’, God will probably just split the Red Sea behind us and dry the mucky mud out real quick so we can get away and then drown the Egyptian Army THAT IS ABOUT TO KILL US!!!<\/strong>”<\/p>\n And I don’t think it crossed their mind to draw a circle in the shore and tell God they weren’t moving out\u00a0of it\u00a0until He showed mercy to His children and parted the Red Sea.<\/p>\n No!\u00a0 They thought like I do…\u00a0 they complained, “So there’s not enough places to bury us all in Epypt,\u00a0that You brought us out here so our dead carcasses wouldn’t clutter up Pharoah’s land??”<\/p>\n Parting the Red Sea and being able to walk on dry ground was such an improbability and impossibility that it was not even\u00a0crossing their logical minds.\u00a0 Their backs were to the sea and their enemy was barreling down on them to wipe them out\u00a0 and\u00a0God just told Moses, “You’re facing the wrong direction”.<\/p>\n Moses said, “Huh?”<\/p>\n God: ” Why are you crying to Me, Go Forward!”<\/p>\n Moses: “Toward Pharoah’s Army? Are you Nuts?! We took all their gold and jewels like You told us, but we didn’t take their weapons, they’ll murder us!”<\/p>\n God: “No, you dummy, I said your facing the wrong way!… Am I taking you back to Egypt or to the Promised Land?”<\/p>\n Moses: “Uhh…, to the Promised Land?”<\/p>\n God: “Right! so turn around and Go Forward!”<\/p>\n Moses: “Into the sea?? Are Epyptians afraid of water like the aliens in Signs or something?”<\/p>\n God: ” NO idiot! Llift up your rod, stretch out your hand and divide it<\/strong>! and the Children of Israel will walk through on dry ground!”<\/p>\n Moses: “God, have you ever picked up clay like what is on the bottom of that sea?”<\/p>\n God: “What d’ya think I made Adam out of? Now do what I say”<\/p>\n Moses: “That’s just stupid, how foolish are You really wanting me to look here?”<\/p>\n God: “Not as foolish as you will be to just sit here and get slaughtered”<\/p>\n Moses: “OK, right”<\/p>\n Did you catch it?\u00a0 God didn’t say “I<\/em><\/span> will divide it”, He told Moses to lift up his<\/span> rod, stretch out his<\/span> hand and divide it<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 I never saw that before!<\/p>\n God said, “I told you I loved you once…” So God told me this morning, “I know you don’t have the capital to do what I planted in your heart, I know you are scrambling just to make the ends meet and how short you are falling if I don’t do something, I understand you don’t see how anything can happen in time to save your rear again, but I’m telling you don’t sit here and get slaughtered, go divide the sea and walk through… Go Forward!”<\/p>\n I said, “but if I do it, how are You<\/span> going to get the glory?”<\/p>\n God said,\u00a0“Seriously? Do you really think\u00a0anyone would\u00a0believe “you” divided this sea of red ink and delivered yourself?… when you read the story of Moses and the Red Sea did you<\/span>\u00a0assume “he” split the sea and dried out the ground immediately?\u00a0 Do you think the Israelites walking through 50 foot high walls of water thought Moses did that?”<\/p>\n “Don’t try to sound pious and holy by being concerned about My Glory, just be obedient and believe Me<\/span>, when the sea parts and you walk through on dry ground, you will find it impossible not to give Me the glory!”<\/p>\n I’m getting up, turning around, facing the wall my back is up against and Going Forward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning I began my prayer time whining like an Israelite! I told God I had to be honest.\u00a0 I said, “God, It is impossible for me to pray circles around all the people and things You have placed on … Continue reading
\nBack in v. 4 of Exodus 14, God already\u00a0told Moses,\u00a0“I am\u00a0going to gain honor over Pharoah and his army so they would knowI Am the Lord”.\u00a0 Not sure if the “they” in that sentence was Egyptians or Isralites, but I think God may have meant both<\/em>.<\/p>\n